Dr. Jamie Davies

I am a Junior Lecturer in Philosophy at The Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS College). I completed my PhD in Philosophy at GCAS in 2025 under the joint supervison of Professor Santiago Zabala and Professor Creston Davis. Before that, I studied philosophy at Cardiff University.

I am primarily interested in questions surrounding ethics, subjectivity, literature, and ontology. My latest article, forthcoming April 2026 in Angelaki titled 'Exhaustion Beyond Being,' serves as a prelude to a larger research project into Ontological Idleness. 

Email: jamie@gcas.ie

Publications:

Published

• ‘Signatures Alike,’ an experimental piece on the Philosophy of Final Words, Mongrel Matter

• ‘On Certain Frail Figures of Justice,’ an article on Cormac McCarthy with Kritikos

• ‘Building a Green New Common Sense,’ an online article published by DiEm25

Forthcoming

• ‘Exhaustion Beyond Being,’ in a Special Issue on Ontological Exhaustion, published by Angelaki. 

This paper argues that the concept of ontological exhaustion, an exhaustion beyond the hypostasisation of being, takes us to the very hither side of being, beyond essence and substance, beyond the subject, to nothing but the useless self whose form-of-life is its undoing of these very categories of being. 

Under Review

• ‘An Excessive Exposure,’ in a Special Issue on Levinas, published by Ápeiron. Estudios de Filosofía. 

This paper argues that what Levinas characterises as the Saying precipitates an ethics not caught in the trap of a juridical concept of duty, but one that rather exceeds this category in its unfolding of a form-of-life whose dwelling in Language is the inhabiting of ethics as a forever unhomely abode, one wherein the subject of duty comes undone 

Conferences/Lectures:

• ‘Towards Some Considerations on A Life...,’ a paper delivered at the Society for European Philosophy Conference (2025)

• Chaired the lecture ‘Why Don’t We Listen? A Philosophy of Warnings,’ delivered by Santiago Zabala (2025)

• ‘Program For Future Research on the Political Logic of Invisibility,’ paper delivered at The New School for Social Research Annual Conference (2025)

• ‘On the Pain of Returning Home,’ a paper delivered at the Society for European Philosophy Conference (2024)

• ‘Transgressive Thought in the 21st Century,’ a panel organized for the Midlands Critical Thought Conference (2024)

• ‘On Certain Frail Figures of Justice,’ a paper delivered at the conference ‘When the Man Comes Around: Cormac McCarthy’ (2023)

• ‘A Metaphysics of Nostalgia,’ a paper delivered at GCAS’ annual conference in Prague (2023)

• ‘The Shattered Self and an Ethics of Uselessness,’ livestreamed lecture (2023)

Awards/Residencies:

• Susimetsa Resident Scholar (2025)

• Victor Neo Award for Outstanding Performance in Critical Theory (2020)

Work in Progress:

I am currently working on Part I of The Exhausting of Being: A Study into Ontological Idleness, provisionally titled 'The Miniature, the Monument, and the Ruin.' 

Further projects include a study into the history of nonsense, an investigation into the philosophical, metaphysical, and ontological place of nostalgia, and an analysis of the modes of subjecitivisation and methods of capturing the subject operative in the 21st century.